1566: Improving Mental Health After Mormonism - Jake Bellenfant's THRIVE Story

Join Margi, John, and Gerardo for our next episode of Thrive Stories this coming Tuesday at noon (MST). Come listen and participate in the conversation as we talk to Jake Bellenfant. Find out how Jake has processed the damaging experiences of his youth and young adulthood growing up gay in the church and how he has reclaimed his own mental health. In addition, listen to how Jake has navigated grief and loss in witnessing both the death of his mother and the loss of his community. Jake is now a mental health advocate, studying at the #1 ranked Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program at Vanderbilt University. He aspires to improve the mental health of populations across the lifespan and in marginalized groups that are struggling with mental illness-- particularly those who have suffered the mental health effects of undue influence, high demand belief systems, abusive family dynamics, and religious trauma.

Thrive Stories is a new podcast series where Margi (alongside John and Carah) will be interviewing a member of the community twice per month. The interviews will be shorter (1-2 hours), story-based, but will be focused on a particular aspect of healing and growth AFTER a Mormon faith crisis (thus the THRIVE name). They will happen on Tuesdays at noon (MST). Some examples of areas of thriving include: Family Relationships, Healthy Boundaries, Finding Community, Finding Meaning/Purpose, Dealing with Grief/Death, Religion after Mormonism, Health Sexuality, Parenting, Improving Physical Health, Identity, Health Marriage/Relationships, Secular Spirituality, Word of Wisdom 2.0, and Women Finding Their Own Voice after Mormonism.

If you would like to nominate someone you know who would be a great candidate for a THRIVE interview, please nominate them (or yourself) HERE.

Show Notes:

• THRIVE story application form link
• Prop 8
• Podcast (icarly) Jennette McCurdy
• Empty Inside Podcast
• Kolby Sorensen MS Episode
• Combating Cult Mind Control
• Steven Hassan website
• Mind Over Mood
• Utah Crisis Line
• Mindfulness Meditation
• Steven Hassan - Influence Continuum Podcast
• Recovering Agency
• Documentaries on cult control and mental control:
  • Bad Vegan - Netflix
  • Wild Wild Country - Netflix
  • The Matrix - HBO Max, Peacock TV & Redbox
  • Pleasantville - Prime Video, Vudu Movie & TV Store, Redbox., Apple TV
  • Tangled - Disney +
  • Holy Hell - Amazon Prime
  • The Invention of Lying - Prime Video, Vudu Movie & TV Store, VUDU, Apple TV or Redbox
  • Smallfoot - Prime Video, VUDU, Vudu Movie & TV Store or Redbox
  • The Vow - Hulu

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